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If you are a researcher in organic chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical science, forensics, or environmental science, you make routine use of chemical analysis. And like its best-selling predecessor was, the Handbook of Basic Tables for Chemical Analysis, Second Edition is your one-stop source for the information needed to design chemical analyses. Here's what is new in the Second Edition: · New chapters on solutions, electroanalytical methods, electrophoresis, and laboratory safety · An expanded section on gas chromatography that includes data on compounds that attack common detectors · New information on detector optimization · An updated section on high performance liquid chromatography that provides the most recent chiral stationary phases, detector information, and revised solvent tables · Updated information on the most useful "wet" chemistry methods · Enlarged section of Miscellaneous Tables Going far beyond the landmark first edition in terms of scope and applications, the second edition provides current and updated data culled from a wide range of resources and consolidated into a concise yet easy-to-use format. The book's laser-like focus on core information gives you the knowledge you need when you need it - at the decision point.
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Worthy update of the first edition.......2004-09-21
A long-awaited update of the 1989 first edition. Professional chemists should seriously consider updating to this edition, if they found the previous one useful. Many sections have substantial additions, as you'd expect in any science over such a time.
But the authors have also added entire new sections. On lab safety. Perhaps they'd earlier assumed that this was outside the book's scope? Other new material covers electrophoresis and electroanalysis. These fields have seen significant work in the past decade. Also, job-wise, many chemists might have responsibilities in these areas, and the book tries to reflect this.
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THE definitive genetics lab manual for over 50 years, this user-friendly volume stresses classical genetics, but includes some of the recent advances related to molecular and human genetics as well.
Drosophila and Maize Experiments in Genetics: Monohybrid Crosses; Dihybrid Crosses. Cell Reproduction: Mitosis. Meiosis in Animals: Oogenesis and Spermatogenesis. Meiosis in Angiosperms: Microsporogenesis and Megasporogenesis. Polytene Chromosomes from Drosophila Salivary Glands. Sex Chromosomes and Gene Transmission. The Sex Check: A Study of Sex Chromatin in Human Cells. Human Chromosomes. Linkage and Crossing Over. Genetics of Ascospore Color in Sordaria: An Investigation of Linkage and Crossing Over Using Tetrad Analysis. Open-Ended Experiments Using Drosophila: Locating a Mutant Gene in Its Chromosome. Isolation of DNA. Restriction Endonuclease Digestion and Gel Electrophoresis of DNA. Amplification of DNA Polymorphisms by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and DNA Fingerprinting. Transformation of Escherichia coli. Gene Action: Synthesis of ... b-Galactosidase in Escherichia coli. Chromatographic Characterization of Drosophila melanogaster Mutants. Bacterial Mutagenesis. Gene Recombination in Phage. Polygenic Inheritance: Fingerprint Ridge Count. Population Genetics: The Hardy-Weinberg Principle; The Effects of Selection and Genetic Drift. Applied Human Genetics.
For anyone interested in hands-on genetics work.
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Great educational tool for beginners.......2007-01-15
This slim volume is packed with various laboratory protocols for beginning level geneticists. Protocols in general consist of non-commercial products.
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Genetic Investigations for the Laboratory includes a balanced mix of topics for the introductory genetics laboratory. The text emphasizes genetic science as an on-going process of inquiry and investigation in which skills such as data gathering, measuring, calculating, hypothesizing, inferring, analyzing, report writing and utilization of the resources of the World Wide Web are utilized. Students explore genetics by using a wide range of model organisms including Escherichia coli (bacterium), Zea mays (corn), Sordaria fimicola (sac fungus), Helianthus annus (sunflower), Pisum sativum (garden pea), and Drosophila melanogaster (fruit-fly). Most chapters can be completed in a single two or three-hour laboratory period, but several do require follow-up data gathering during a subsequent period. Chapters throughout the third edition provide both a theoretical and historical overview on each topic, making it unnecessary for the user to supplement procedural instructions. The third edition includes new chapters on gene expression (Chapter 13), complementation (Chapter 15), and bioinformatics (Chapter 17).
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This revised workbook/lab text consists of 21 projects that can be executed with readily available materials, a minimum of elaborate equipment and a reasonable amount of preparation time. Early projects deal with biochemistry and cytochemistry; the middle ones focus on organelles and their physiology; and later activities explore more advanced molecular topics such as restriction mapping strategies. New to this edition: a concise section on statistics covering the mean, standard deviation and standard error; and a chapter designed to enable students to write up their work as a lab report.
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Title: Who dunnit? Wildlife criminals beware: one lab uses high-tech tools and detective work to solve crimes against nature.(LIFE GENETICS)(National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory)
Author: Jeanna Bryner
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Dye Laser Principles: With Applications (Optics and Photonics Series)
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A tutorial introduction to the field of dye lasers, Dye Laser Principles also serves as an up-to-date overview for those using dye lasers as research and industrial tools. A number of the issues discussed in this book are pertinent not only to dye lasers but also to lasers in general. Most of the chapters in the book contain problem sets that expand on the material covered in the chapter.
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* Dye lasers are among the most versatile and successful laser sources currently available in use Offering both pulsed and continuous-wave operation and tunable from the near ultraviolet to the near infrared, these lasers are used in such diverse areas as:
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Very useful for anyone interested in dye lasers.......1999-04-16
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Laser Dynamics 3. Femtosecond Dye Lasers 4. Narrow-Linewidth Pulsed Dye Laser Oscillators 5. CW Dye Lasers 6. Technology of Pulsed Dye Lasers 7. Photochemistry of Laser Dyes 8. Industrial Applications of Dye Lasers 9. Dye-laser Isotope Separation 10 Dye Lasers in Medicine
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This is a ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A692714. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In spite of an immense increase in interest in helmet-mounted displays (HMDs) over the past two decades, there have been few studies on head motion while using HMDs in operational flight. Rotary-wing flight conducted using a number of HMD configurations has resulted in a head position database that will be useful in filling this void. Various analysis techniques have been applied to investigate characteristics of roll (tilt) head position distributions for a slalom flight maneuver for four visual environments: good visual environment (daytime, unaided), night vision goggles, HMD with thermal imagery, and HMD with thermal imagery and symbology.
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This is a ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A328414. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In spite of an immense increase in interest in helmet-mounted displays (HMDs) over the past two decades, there have been few studies on head motion while using HMDs in operational flight Rotary-wing flights conducted using a number of HMD configurations have resulted in a head position database that will be useful in filling this void. Azimuth head position data have been analyzed for a slalom flight maneuver for four visual environments: good visual environment (daytime, unaided), night vision goggles, HMD with thermal imagery, and HMD with thermal imagery and symbology. The major thread throughout these analyses was that the pilots exhibited greatest head motion for the NVG environment. The two HMD configurations (TIO and RWS) were very similar in exhibited head motion, not indicating any significant differences between the TIO FLIR imagery alone and the RWS FLIR imagery plus symbology. Based on this analysis of the head azimuth position data, it is concluded that the interquartile range IQR (or some other lQR) dispersion statistic is a good discriminator between the head position distributions for the four visual environments. For all subjects, the IQR for the night vision goggle visual environment was larger than for the other three visual environments. Likewise, the IQR for good visual environment was always the second largest. The IQR values for thermal imaging only and rotary wing symbology, the most closely related visual environments, vie for third and fourth ranking.
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This is a ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A528414. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In spite of an immense increase in interest in helmet-mounted displays (HMDs) over the past two decades, there have been few studies on head motion while using HMDs in operational flight. Rotary-wing flights conducted using a number of HMD configurations have resulted in a head position database that will be useful in filling this void. Various analysis techniques have been applied to investigate characteristics of elevation head position distributions for a slalom flight maneuver for four visual environments good visual environment (daytime, unaided), night vision goggles, HMD with thermal imagery, and HMD with thermal imagery and symbology.
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This is a ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A241134. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Airborne operations regularly expose paratroopers to risk of head impact. Even relatively mild head impacts, while not life threatening, can cause short-term impairment from dizziness, headaches, memory loss, lack of ability to concentrate, and irritation. There may also be a cumulative traumatic brain injury (TBI) effect from repetitive head impacts compounding the sequelae. Given the necessity for speed and aggressiveness in the airborne operational environment, these symptoms become militarily significant, no matter how temporary, by jeopardizing soldier survivability and the success of the unit's mission. There is an obvious need to protect the soldier in these environments and reduce the head injury rate to a minimum. This test report provides the results of comparative laboratory assessments of seven candidate head protection systems compatible with the airborne configuration of the existing ballistic protective helmet, commonly known as the PASGT (Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops).
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Dye Lasers (Topics in Applied Physics)
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Dye Lasers: 25 Years (Topics in Applied Physics, Vol 70)
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A375793. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis investigates human performance differences on maneuvering tasks in virtual and real spaces when a natural locomotion technique is used as opposed to an abstraction through a device such as a treadmill. The motivation for the development of locomotion devices thus far has been driven by the assumption that a The "perfect" device will result in human performance levels comparable to the real world. This thesis challenges this assumption under the hypothesis that other factors beyond the locomotion device contribute to performance degradation. An experiment was conducted to study the effects of these other factors. The experiment studied sidestepping, kneeling, looking around a corner, and backward movement tasks related to a building clearing exercise. The participants physically walked through the environment under all conditions. There were three treatments: real world (no display, physical objects present), virtual world (head- mounted display, no physical objects), and real and virtual world combined (head-mounted display, physical objects present). The results suggest that performance and behavior are not the same across conditions with the real world condition being uniformly better than the virtual conditions. This evidence supports the claim that even with identical locomotion techniques, performance and behaviors change from the real to the virtual world.
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High-power Dye Lasers (Series in Optical Sciences)
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High-power dye lasers provide a versatile tool in many scientific, industrial and medical applications. This book offers an up-to-date and practical guide to the physics and technology of these lasers for all those designing, building and using such systems. Individual topics include dispersive resonators, signal amplification, and dye laser pumping by excimer lasers, copper-vapor lasers and flashlamps.
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Infrared Absorbing Dyes (Topics in Applied Chemistry)
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Between the covers of this book are testimonies from Christian role models from the worlds of film, sports, and music. The stories are real and powerful, and are presented in a way that believers and seekers alike will find compelling.
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Review: How Do You Know He's Real?.......2007-06-14
In the book, How Do You Know He's Real, you'll get an inside look into the spiritual lives of 34 celebrities. Hagberg has compiled testimonies ranging from Kirk Cameron to Rudy Sarzo (former bass player for Ozzy Osbourne). Each story is remarkably different and it's amazing to read how God has worked in the lives of each of these well-known people.
Celebrities Share Their Christian Faith.......2007-05-31
The author has collected very readable stories telling how celebrities have become Christians, and they share their low points and their joys here. This is a welcome peek into the lives of well known people who typically are more secretive.
Ricky Skaggs, Kirk Cameron, Gloria Gaynor, Bethel Johnson (34 people in all) tell about their struggles and their early days as new Christians.
Billy Ray Cyrus tells of singing in his grandpa's Pentecostal church when he was 4, and includes the touching lyrics to the song he wrote "The other side."
Jackie (Jacklyn) Zeman, star of General Hospital, advises that when you are at a crossroads "cry out to God and ask for His guidance."
Al Kasha's story resonated with me; this Academy Award winning songwriter overcame agoraphobia, and talks about how Hollywood is a tough place for a Jew who came to Christ, and how he started a Hollywood Bible study group.
There are stories here for anyone to enjoy and find spirit lifting.
Celebrities talk about God in their life.......2007-04-27
(Hagberg has written a companion book with the same title, subtitled God Unplugged)
How Do You Know He's Real? is a collection of celebrity essays about God acting in their lives. The contributors include athletes, musicians, and actors. Their stories often follow a familiar pattern of fame leading to drugs and alcohol before hitting bottom and being turned around by an encounter with God. That's not to say the accounts are all stock and cliched, but rather that God meets each person in their need--and for celebrities that need will be similar. And many of the tales include growing up in stable Christian homes, but still needing to make personal decisions about God and Christ and how that decision impacted their careers.
The stories are collected alphabetically but Hagberg has provided a topic finder so a reader battling discouragement or frustration can find offerings from Billy Ray Cyrus, Nancy Stafford, Zorro, Gary Burghoff or John Schneider.
Each essay begins with a picture and short biography of the contributor, listing their accomplishments. Following the selection is God's Road Map, a few sentences about the issues raised by the author, with Bible verses for teaching and encouragement.
The essays themselves are as varied as the contributors. Some of them read as if they were written to be given as speeches. Several sound like the writer could be sitting at your kitchen table, chatting over the coffee pot. All of them are honest and share from their heart how God has acted in their life and how they know He's real.
Reading the accounts of God acting in both miraculous and mundane ways reminds us that no matter what a person does for a living, each of us are created beings who need a loving Savior and merciful God.
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COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!!! Terrific Read!.......2006-05-18
I received this book as a gift and once I started, I couldn't put it down. Ms Hagberg has captured the beliefs of these well known and respected celebrities, sports figures, and musicians. I'm anxiously awaiting the next book in the series and can't wait to give copies of this one to all my friends. Order 2!
The book of a lifetime!.......2006-04-18
This is a book that you will no doubt want to share with everyone you know! (I certainly am!) It was so hard to put the book down - but worth it - just to extend the time and joy of reading it! GREAT content! GREAT author! I can't wait to read the next books in the series!
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Roll Sound, Camera, Action: A Sequel to Sin, Sex and Soap
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Roll Sound, Camera, Action! is a hilarious fast-paced romp through the international TV commercial production industry with all of its odd writers, bizarre crew members, equally bizarre clients and actors of questionable talent.
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Sin, Sex and Soap
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A hilarious satire on the advertising industry.
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Title: Present arms! Sholto Macpherson discovers how sex, soaps and sin are disarming one of the world's most violent cities.(Rio de Janeiro)
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